One Month

One month from today is my birthday. One of THE BIG ones. One month from today, I'll have to change my header. Crazy.

Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.

Today I ran into an old friend I grew up with. She's a year older than me & she was carrying her newborn son. Crazy. My best childhood friend is pregnant with her 2nd child. Crazy. Another wonderful friend of mine from school is going through infertility treatments & desperately wants a baby. Crazy.

Today I Skyped with my darling 20 year old as she's studying abroad in Spain. Today I took my 18 year old daughter to have her nose pierced. Today I listened to my 12 year old son bang away on his drums, imagining himself to be Niel Pert.

This decade will bring these friends of mine pacifiers & playdates. I'm thrilled for them, I loved that time in my life, but I've been there & done that. Suddenly, my birthday doesn't seem quite so ominous.

Bring it!

April, already?!

Where the heck does the time go? I keep thinking I'm just a couple of days out of this blogging thing & then I realize it's been 16 days! WTH?! I'm going to attempt to blog every day in April. Really. That's not an April Fool's joke. I seriously gotta jump back on the bloggy-wagon.

So, what's up around these here parts?

First of all, the banquet was a huge success! Everyone had a great time & the video was a hit!!! I'm so grateful that it's over, but mostly I'm grateful that Jordan had a chance to play with such a wonderful group of girls. Oh! How I love them!!! And Coach!!! Jordan has been blessed to have these people in her life for the past 4 years.

The day after the banquet, Jordan's got an email with a link from FSU. When I clicked on it (she was at school, I had her permisson), I saw this...

Woohoo!!! Although we know she was in, as she qualified to have an "official visit" with the soccer team, it was still good to see something offical from the school!

The month before Megan got accecpted to UF, I hedged my bets that she would get in & spent hours & hours making signs to hang all over the house to celebrate (I think there were hundreds of Gators hanging from our ceiling, but I can't find any of the pictures, darn it!). I was so busy with the banquet that I completely forgot about the FSU acceptance date, so I ran to the mall to buy a banner & then spent about 1/2 hour & made little "ornaments" to hang on a little tree outside our front door. These have since disintegrated with rain, but it was fun while it lasted.

In a couple of weeks, we'll have to replace the banner with one of these...

Because...

this girl will be home from Spain in 14 days!!! And I KNOW my Gator Girl won't tolerate a Seminole hanging on the house all by it's lonesome. We've missed Megan so much, but she has had an awesome time & I have to say that the time has flown by, I can't believe it's been 2 1/2 months already. Crazy!!! Here she is during Semana Santa in Gibraltar with one of her new friends. :) She hasn't blogged about this excursion yet, so I hope she doesn't mind me stealing her picture from FB (LOVE YOU MEG!)

We're all excited about her return, especially Jordan. She wants to put their bunk beds back together & have a sleep over every night. We've definitely got some organizing/cleaning to do to make that happen! Isn't that the story of my life?!

See ya tomorrow!

Tomorrow!

The banquet is TOMORROW! Here's song#2 from the video for your viewing pleasure...

Attention Target cashier...

If, on THE most beautiful Sunday afternoon, an obviously unshowered woman comes into Target wearing sweats & buying only ginger ale, Popsicles, Jell-o & a vacuum cleaner, no need to say "Have a nice day."

That ship has sailed, sweetie.

Just sayin'.

I hope my boy is feeling better soon!

The Home Stretch

So, this coming Tuesday is Jordan's high school soccer banquet. The official end to her high school soccer career. The official end to MY high school soccer career. I'll admit, I have gotten WAAAY too involved in this team this season.

Normally, the freshmen parents are responsible for the banquet, but somehow this year the banquet committee ended up consisting of 2 senior parents & 2 freshmen parents, with, of course, one of the senior parents being me.

Here's what we've been up to...



The bears are for the seniors. I made them for the seniors when Jordan was a freshmen & everyone thought they were so cute, I made them for Megan's senior class & now for Jordan's class too. This is the iron-on I put on the front of the bear's t-shirt...then I also ironed on each girls names & number to the back of the t-shirts. Each bear is holding a soccer ball in one hand & another t-shirt with the logo of the college they are going to rolled up like a diploma in the other. They are freakin' adorable! (if I do say so myself)

Then centerpieces were a group effort. Another mom painted the flower pots black & glued on the ribbon, I wrote the names & took the pictures & yet another mom attached the pictures to the sticks & covered the lollipops with cellophane. I think they came out really cute.

Without a doubt, the thing I'm most excited about is the season highlight video I spent the last few months putting together... here's a sneak peek at the first part of the video.

Today's the Day!!!

I can't believe my first-born is 20 today!!! Time sure does fly when you're having fun & I really have had a blast being her mom!

Welcome to your 20's, Meggie Poo! I hope they are everything you dream them to be & more!

I love you all ways, always!

Mom

Yesterday was THE Day!

Yes folks, it's true. I may have become the world's worst blogger... not only have I neglected to update with anything exciting, I also neglected to publicly acknowledge my awesome husband's 40TH BIRTHDAY yesterday!!!

Happy Belated Birthday, Honey! You know I love you & I while I didn't update my blog, I DID make THE most delicious dinner. Right?! Right?

I'll be back to updating soon, folks. This soccer video is kicking my butt, but it's nearly done! Woohoo!